Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be ud once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. accurate | B. alteration | C. average | D. calculates | E. conceal |
杰克逊歌曲下载F. enormously | G. initial | H. intervals | klineI. merely | J. multiply |
僵尸预警指南K. prediction | | | | |
奥斯卡 名单 | | | | |
Beyond two or three days, the world’s best weather forecasts are bad on guesswork, and beyond six or ven they are worthless.
The Butterfly Effect is the reason. For small pieces of weather — and to a global forecaster, small can mean thunderstorms and snowstorms— any ___41___ fails rapidly. Errors and uncertainties ___42___, gathering upward through a chain of unstable features, from dust devils (尘旋风) and windstorms up to continent-size eddies (旋风) ___43___ satellites can e.
The modern weather models work with a network of points of the order of sixty miles apart, and even so, some ___44___ data has to be guesd, since ground stations and satellites cannot e everywhere. But suppo the earth could be covered with nsors spaced one foot apart, rising at one-foot ___45___ all the way to the top of the atmosphere. Suppo every nsor gives perfectly ___46___ readings of temperature, pressure, dampness, and any other quantity a meteorologist (气象工作者) would want. Exactly at noon a(n) ___47___ powerful computer takes all the data and ___48___ what will happen at each point at 12.01, then 12.02, then 12.03 …
The computer will still be unable to predict whether Princeton, New Jery, will have sun or rain on a day one month away. At noon the spaces between the nsors will ___49___ alterations that the computer will not know about, tiny variations from the ___50___. By 12.01, tho alterations will already have created small errors one foot away. Soon the errors will have multiplied to the ten-foot scale, and so on up to the size of the globe.
Keys:
41-45 KJIGH 46-50 AFDEC
Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be ud once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. countless | B. exhausted | C. comparison | D. esntial | E. estimates | 新概念英语第二册F. distinctive |
G. relatively | H. cleared | I. unfortunately | J. recycled | K. restricts | |
| | | kele | esmeralda | |
Rain forests, found in Earth’s temperate and tropical (热带的) zones, are some of the most biologically varied ecosystems on the planet. All rain forests share certain ___41___ features, including a clod canopy, thedenvegetation of thetop branches that forms a roof above the forest floor, a damp and warm climate, and ___42___ constant temperatures throughout the year. Most of the forest’s inct and animal life grows well in
the canopy’s leafy and sunlit environment. The forest’s groundcover, by comparison, is small. Less than 2 percent of the sun’s light makes its way through the canopy and the darkness below. This darkness, along with the poor quality of the soils, ___43___ plant growth.
Rain forests are a(n) ___44___ part of Earth’s total ecology. Huge amounts of water are absorbed into tree roots and ___45___ into the atmosphere from the tree leaves through a process called transpiration (蒸发). Tree roots also fix the soil in place and slow the runoff of rains into rivers and oceans. Through the process of photosynthesis (光合作用), rain forests absorb more carbon dioxide and give off more oxygen than any other ecosystem.
The rain forests are ___46___ shrinking at a rapid rate as a result of the profitable ventures of farming, logging, and mining. When tropical rain forests are ___47___ in order to rai cattle and crops, the nutrient-poor soils are quickly ___48___. When farmers move on to new areas, heavy rains and baking sun leave the land fruitless and lif
eless. Logging and mining cau similar damage to the land and destroy the territory of ___49___ millions of birds, incts and animals. By some ___50___, an area of tropical rain forest the size of the state of Delaware disappears in this way every month.
Keys:
41-45 F G K D J | 46-50 I H B A E real one |
| |
匈牙利语英文
Section B
Directions:Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be ud once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. challenged B. functions C. solved D. derves E. mirrors F. practical G. further H. urge I. prence J. opposing K. survival |
|
“In wilderness is the prervation of the world.” This is a famous saying from a writer rega
rded as one of the fathers of environmentalism. The frequency with which it is borrowed 41 a heated debate on environmental protection: whether to place wilderness at the heart of what is to be prerved.
As John Sauven of Greenpeace UK points out, there is a strong appeal in images of the wild, the untouched; more than anything el, they speak of the nature that many people value most dearly. The 42 to leave the subject of such images untouched is strong, and the danger exploitation brings to such landscapes is real. Some of the wilderness also perform 43 that humans need—the rainforests, for example, store carbon in vast quantities.
Lee Lane, a visiting fellow at the Hudson Institute, takes the 44 view. He acknowledges that wilderness do provide uful rvices, such as water conrvation. But that is not, he argues, a reason to avoid all human 45 , or indeed commercial and industrial exploitation. There are ever more people on the Earth, and they reasonably and rightfully want to have better lives, rather than merely struggle for 46 . While the ways of using re
sources have improved, there is still a growing need for raw materials, and some wilderness contain them in abundance. If they can be tapped without reducing the rvices tho wilderness provide, the argument goes, there is no 47 reason not to do so. Being untouched is not, in itlf, a characteristic worth valuing above all others.
I look forward to eing the views taken further, and to their being 48 by the other participants. One opinion is that both cas need to take on the question of spiritual value a little more directly. And there is a 49 会计核算的基本前提有 question as to whether wilderness can be exploited without harm.
